Zandra Rhodes
British fashion designer
Founding the Fashion and Textile Museum.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Having someone to love.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 March 2018 source ↗
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Irvine Welsh
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I haven’t achieved anything of note yet.
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Possibly the fact that some of the stuff I’ve written will still be around after I’ve snuffed it.
Marc Almond
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Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
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Never getting back to a size 12.
An actor or a nun.
The plastics episode of Blue Planet.
Swimming down the Thames on a full moon night 10 years ago. It was dangerous, but extremely joyful.
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